ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1717, 18 April 1862, Page 5

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Costs of the Windham Case* — Is, I believe, a fact that the inquiry into the alleged insanity of Mr. W. F, Windham costs something like 160/. per hour, or nearly three guineas a minjite. Mr M. Chambers, Mr. Field, and Mr. Hume Williams are the counsel for the petitioners — Geneial Windham and others, Mr. Chambers' brief is marked 500 guineas, and he as a "refresher, " of fifty guineas each day, and a ten guinea consultation fee every evening. Mr. Field's brief is 130 guineas, with a " refresher " often guineas per day; and Mr. Williams has au epual douceur. Sir. H, Cairns is the "leader" for Mr. Windham, and his brief is also marked at 500 guineas, and his " refresher" is edual to that of Mr. Chambers. He has a consultation fee of twenty guineas each evening. Mr. Karslake, Sir Hugh's first officer, received 150 A with his brief, and his refresher is twenty guineas a-day. Mr. Millward is the junior on the Windham, side, but his fee is not a very extensive one. Mr. Coleridge, who appears for Mrs. Windham, has only thirty guineas marked on his brief, but his refresher, it is understood, bears a larger proportion to the actual sum on the brief than that of any of the other legal gentlemen en- | gaged in the case- Mr. Charles Russell merely " watches " the inquiry on behalf of Lady Sophia Griubelei, mother of the alleged lunatic, and of bis fees I have no reliable knowledge: The fees to thejury amountto sixty-nine guineas per: diem--or 3/. 3s. to eachof tbe twenty-three jury - mon. The expenses of witnesses are very great, inasmuch as they have been brought from all parts of the country— and some even from Russia, Spa, Paris, and Switzerland. The average cost of each witness is 110/. Money-Orders between England and Australia.- — The benefits of the money-order system between the United Kingdom and the colonies have been extended to Victoria, Victorian Government Gazette contains the new regulations on the subject, the substance of which we snbjoin, in the hope that this colony will not much longer be left behind in the march improvement. On and after Monday last money-orders can be issued at any of tho principle post towns in Vie- , toria. The money-orders can be made ' payable at such post-ofiices in Great , Britiau and Ireland as the Postmaster in i England shall irom time to time notify as post-offices at which the orders can be made payable. The premium chargeable will be — For an order of £5 or under, 2s. 6d. ; above £5 and not exceeding £10, ss. The largest amount for which any money order can be issued in Victoria is £10, The regulations supply the particulars required by the Post-Office on the issue of a money order, in substance as follows (with some exceptions afterwards set forth): — "No money-order to be issued unless the applicant furnish the j surname and, at least, the initial of one Christian uaine, both of the remitter aud ] the payer, together with the address of -the remitter, for entry in the office books so that, if necessary, he may bja traoed. If the applicant, however tender the name of either tbe remitter or payer at great length, such particulars to be received, and the advice to be made accordingly. | I. If the remitter or payer be a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as 1 'Baring Brothers/ 'Smith & Son,' 'Jones & Co,'to suffice j but mere term 'Messrs, such as 'Messrs. Rivington,' or the name of a Company trading under a title which does not consist of the names of the persons composing it, such as the Canon Co., to be inadmissable. The remitter is also on stating that tbe order is to be paid only through a Bank, to have the option of giving or witholding the name of the payer, or to substitute for the name of the payer any other designation, such as The Chief Clerk of the Foreign Office ; ' in such cases the officer drawing the order to cross it in the same way that cheques are commonly crossed when they are intended to be paid throngh a Bank." The other regulations apply chiefly to the conduct of the business between the colony and the mother country. The Progress of Vaccination.— On the 14th of May, 1796. Jenner vaccinated a boy named Phipps, eight years old, from the hand of a dairywoman who had the true cowpock. The boy went well through the experiment, was inoculated for smallpox in July, and failed to take it. From this time forward it Was the custom to make the I4th of May a day of rejoicing in Prussia and elsewhere, and to publish the annual results of vaccination. For many years the vaccinations exoeeded the births, showing that the people were aware of their danger while any remained unsecured. In Prussia the deaths from smallpox had averaged 40,000 annually before vaccination was introduced and within 20 years they had sunk to 3,000, though there been a large accession of new territory. Sweden and Denmark, and some territories iv Germany, remained absolutely free from smallpox for 20 years after the practice oi vaccination had been properly adopted — a sudden chagh from the few preceding years, when 600,000 persons died annua! of smallpox iv the world at large, and 210,000 in Europe and when every quarter of a' century saw twenty five million* of human beings oarried off by the foul est distempers. — Once a week. The Army In CannAda.— A rumour which is generally credited in military circles, has been, extensively circulated that Major-General Sir Alexaneer Murraj Tulloch, K.CB., has been appointed to t higw military command in our army it Canada, — Daily 'lelegraph.